Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge - Roy Ayers [LP] Mulan With a little help from

With a little help from his friends

Their sound is one that straddles so-called blue eyed soul and the best of soul in the black music tradition

but it adds the maturity and worldly experiences of a man in his thirties with the responsibilities of fatherhood

after apologizing for the busted air conditioning

Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge - Roy Ayers [LP] Mulan With a little help fromIn February 2018, Roy Ayers performed four sold out shows in Los Angeles as part of the Jazz Is Dead Black History Month series. It wasn't until 2020 that fans of Ayers discovered that in addition to those shows, the legendary vibraphone player had also recorded an entire album of new material with Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad. Over the course of it's eight original compositions, written collaboratively by Younge, Shaheed Muhammad & Ayers